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Community Work Programme
17 June 2018
Community Work Programme - background materials
These background materials on the Community Work Programme were prepared as part of induction training for non-profit agencies appointed to implement the CWP, and as an introduction for other stakeholders. The materials were originally developed for the Department of Co-operative…
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Community Work Programme
08 December 2013
The Community Work Programme: Building a Society that Works
In the context of a global jobs crisis, there is renewed interest in the role of public employment in providing work opportunities. This context has also seen a range innovation in public employment, with new forms of work and new…
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23 August 2013
An Appraisal of Local Economic Development Impact Assessment Methodologies in the Context of the Community Work Programme
This paper looks at the strengths and weaknesses of current methodologies in capturing the kinds of local economic development impacts from the CWP. It aims to fill the gap of methodologies available for measuring economic multipliers in a local economy.…
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20 August 2013
The Transformative Potential of Public Employment Programmes
After the Great Depression in the 1930s, part of the recovery in the United States of America relied upon a massive programme of public works, under the Works Progress Administration. Its impact was not just as a stimulus; it also…
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25 April 2013
The South African Community Capability Study: The Context of Public Primary Education and the Community Work Programme
A key part of the motivation to potentially scale up the CWP to a million participants included a proposed strategy of support to schools. This research looks at the impact of CWP's schools support at a sample of schools that…
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This qualitative study assessed the impact of the Community Work Programme (CWP) on the capabilities of participants and communities. It showed the programme had significantly expanded participants capability set and had contributed to improving both individual and community wellbeing. (The…
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This paper looks at the role that potential poverty-reducing impact that the CWP could have is expanded. While acknowledging that there are significant non-monetary impacts, the focus is on measuring the impact that earning the CWP wage would have on…
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23 January 2012
Assessment of crèches supported by the Bohlabela Community Work Programme October 2011 by Lima Rural Development Foundation
The Community Work Programme (CWP) was implemented as a pilot programme in Bushbuckridge and several other municipalities in 2009. The programme is essentially an employment safety net employing 2 200 people in Bushbuckridge within four sectors of community work, these…
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14 November 2011
A qualitative evaluation of the Community Work Programme - Umthwalume CWP October 2011 by Thutong Training and Development
The findings clearly answer the question of how beneficiaries have been impacted by CWP. The findings show that the beneficiaries are pleased with the quality of services that are provided through the CWP programme such as home based care, cleaning…
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09 November 2011
Studying the impact of the Community Work Programme on its participants , Matric geography project 2011 Bohlahela CWP
Aim: The Community Work Programme (CWP) is an initiative of the State President's office which is designed to create an employment safety net in rural areas. The aim of this investigation is to study whether or not the CWP has…
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15 July 2011
Inequality and economic marginalisation: How the structure of the economy impacts on opportunities on the margins
In the face of a long-standing unemployment crisis that increasingly threatens social and economic stability, employment has at last taken centre stage in South African policy, and with this, focus is shifting to the structural constraints on employment creation within…
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What if unemployed people in South Africa had a right – a real right – to a minimum level of regular work on decent terms? In 2005, India passed a law guaranteeing rural households up to 100 days of work…
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What if unemployed people in South Africa had a right – a real right – to a minimum level of regular work, on decent terms? In 2005, India passed a law guaranteeing rural households up to 100 days of…
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Description Unemployment and other employment-related problems do not occur only in times of crisis. As observed by the ILO, there was a Jobs Crisis before the financial crisis, a structural unemployment problem as a result of jobless growth in many…
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23 September 2010
Inequalities in Emerging Economies: What role for Labour Market and Social Policies?
The OECD held a one-day workshop in Paris in May 2010 to present the findings of a series of papers commissioned on this topic from Brazil, India, China and South Africa. Kate Philip was there. For South Africans attending the…
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